Why women are wearing white to the polls on Election Day

If you went to the polls before work this morning to vote, maybe you noticed some women were dressed in all white.

No, this isn't a boycott of the "no white after Labor Day" fashion rule, but rather a tribute to the suffragettes of the early 1900s, who wore the same hue at protests while fighting for women's right to vote in the United States.

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The #WearWhiteToVote movement was born on social media, where many women are sharing photos of their white Election Day outfits and their tributes to the women who came before them, urging others to do the same.

"I get to do this because of the work of so many feminists before me and that is a tradition I can't wait to play a part in," one woman wrote on Instagram.